Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A secured creditor may , with the agreement of the trustee or leave of the court , at any time alter the value which he has , in his proof of debt , placed upon his security , but if he is the petitioner for the bankruptcy order or has voted in respect of his unsecured balance , he may revalue his security only with the leave of the court ( r 6.115 ) . |
| 2 | Judicial review does lie to the visitor in cases where he has acted outside his jurisdiction in the sense that he did not have the power under the regulating documents to enter into the adjudication of the dispute , or has abused his power , or has acted in breach of the rules of natural justice ( post , pp. 1114F–G , G–H , 1125H , 1126C–D , 1129H — 1130A ) . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's come into my parlour or get sliced into pieces with the lasers . ’ |
| 4 | It went against all biological sense to suggest that the receptors and the elaborate physiological adaptations which they set in motion had no purpose , or had evolved in response to taking opium . |
| 5 | You or your husband or wife must either think of Scotland as your permanent home or have lived in Scotland for at least one year immediately before you apply for divorce . |
| 6 | Do you find that you tend to generally eat more , or crave sweet food more when you are feeling tired or have gone without food for a long time ? |
| 7 | A document published by a committee of the Justice Ministry on May 20 claimed that as many as 40,000 people might have been executed or have died in detention under the previous regime of former President Hissène Habré . |
| 8 | We know that if we started to challenge everything we should end up like the centipede that became paralysed through analysis of the movement of its many legs . |
| 9 | We safeguarded ourselves by leaving one man behind to clear the rabbits that became entangled in front of the main wood . |
| 10 | This aspect is something that has increased in importance with the rise of inflation because there are very few cases where the deceased would not have been earning more by the date of trial than he was earning at the date of his death . |
| 11 | We now stock upwards of 300 titles , admittedly mostly between September and December , but they can generate very significant sales at a crucial time of year — and none of us can afford to ignore a product range that has increased in sales by some 300% in the last three years . |
| 12 | The terror that has ruled in Iraq under Saddam 's regime is tragically clear . |
| 13 | Bristol will be demonstrating its test case , a Windows CASE analysis and design tool called ObjectMaker from MS-DOS house Mark V Systems that has ported to Unix with Wind/U . |
| 14 | ‘ The war that has raged in Bosnia-Herzegovina over the past year has taken a staggering toll : thousands have been killed or imprisoned , thousands more are at risk due to hunger and exposure , and over two million people have been forced from their homes , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Pruning in the second and subsequent years should try to begin a routine or system — and only your cultivation and experience will determine this — of removing wood that has flowered in proportion to the amount and vigour of new wood that the individual plant puts up . |
| 16 | A damning report published this week by Oxfam , a British charity that has worked in Africa for 40 years , concludes that structural adjustment has neither restored growth nor eased poverty in Africa . |
| 17 | Peter Jackson , chief cat-man at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ) , describes the development as the most encouraging thing that has happened to tigers for years . |
| 18 | Erm , we hear a lot about the holocaust that happened to the Jews in the second world war but not so many people know a lot about the holocaust that has happened to women over centuries and centuries where millions of women were burnt as witches , but er , just because they were women ! |
| 19 | This is an area that has come to prominence in recent years as new kinds of instruments such as auction market preferred shares ( AMPS ) , convertible debt with premium put options and convertible capital bonds have appeared . |
| 20 | From the material that has come to light during our own century , it is clear that the Essenes were looser and more diffuse in their organisation , less centralised and less uniform than the Sadducees and the Pharisees . |
| 21 | It 's a Sunday-school hymn , hardly the kind that gets requested on Songs of Praise , I should have thought . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Other than having worked in property since my teens , nothing . ’ |
| 23 | Of course you realise that having dispensed with petrol with a quick flourish you have also abolished plastics , polymers and detergents , not to mention over a hundred major products necessary to modern industry . |
| 24 | Although some strikes went ahead , the estimated 30,000 Russian workers in 18 enterprises who stopped work on May 21 were fewer than had participated in strikes for Russian minority rights in August 1989 [ see pp. 36854-55 ] . |
| 25 | The sweat that had begun in anticipation of what she might encounter in the street now ran in fear of her mother 's rage ; Nunzia 's eyes had gone hard and wrinkled like black olive pips when Rosa had produced the plover , and she had clucked impatiently with her tongue when Rosa lied and said her grandfather had shot it and presented it to her . |
| 26 | The cells were stimulated with peptides that had bound to HLA-B53 in the HLA assembly assay , each at 25μM , pooled as follows : cp6 , cp6.1 , cp6.2 , sh1 , sh6 ; and ls6 , tr15 , tr16 and tr20 . |
| 27 | But more compelling were her dark expressive eyes , eyes that had widened with shock on seeing Tyler there , eyes that might have spoken to him of anger but instead had betrayed something much deeper , and far more dangerous . |
| 28 | This showed how very different everything was from the situation that had developed in England over the course of centuries , and colonial developments always gave Englishmen the idea that they were moving into empty land and seeing what could be made out of it . |
| 29 | The sense of panic about over-population that had swept across England in the late sixteenth century , and had made emigration look like the answer to problems of poverty and disorder , had died down and there were even suggestions that a substantial population helped economic expansion . |
| 30 | An analysis of isolates from 210 patients attending regional clinics in Edinburgh and Manchester between 1986 and 1992 showed that the main cause of increased isolations of P cepacia from 1989 was the emergence of an epidemic strain that had spread between patients in both clinics . |